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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP do you work in FCPS/on the board etc?  If not, how would you know?  But I do think that moving town of Vienna away from Madison would NEVER work- the town would never approve this and residents would also be effective in their displeasure.[/quote]p

Neither the Town nor its residents are some all-powerful political force.  If you want your own schools, incorporate as a city like Falls Church or Alexandria.  Otherwise, you have to accept that you can be redistricted just like anyone else.  Vienna Woods used to go to Oakton and there was a point years ago when the School Board came within a few votes of moving all of both Wolftrap and Westbriar, including parts of the Town, to Marshall.  There is no middle or high school within the Town limits or which Town residents have any special right to attend.

This only came up because someone was complaining about the split feeders at Kilmer and Thoreau.  You can leave the current boundaries as they are, but the chances right now of getting all Town kids zoned for Thoreau are nil.  The focus over the next few years will be on setting up new AAP programs at Thoreau and other schools to relieve crowding at Jackson and Kilmer, not changing the base boundaries to appease people in the Town of Vienna.  
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Vienna has the right to become a city if it wants, and if it does, it would take away a lot of money from Fairfax County. Fairfax City pays a lot less money to the County than Vienna, Herndon, or Clifton. Vienna pays for most of its infrastructure and police force through its town taxes and then pays the same amount of taxes to Fairfax County even though they don't get these services from the County. Fairfax's best interest monetarily is to keep the current system in place.[/quote]

Have at it, but there are no middle or high schools in the Town, so you'd have to find places to build them and raise the construction funds.  In addition, you'd have to buy the elementary schools in the Town from FCPS.

I can't help but think that the talk about how important it is for all Town students to attend the same middle and high school is just a bunch of BS intended to try to make living in the TOV sound more special.  I think most people see through that.

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